WordNet
n. a building where opium is sold and used
Wikipedia
Opium Den was a 1990s gothic rock/ ethereal wave band from Boston, Massachusetts, acclaimed for Christian Gilbert's Spanish/classical-influenced guitar playing and Annette Farrington's poetic lyrics. They also described their music as psychedelic rock and art rock.
The band released three albums: Diary of a Drunken Sun (1993), Secret Sky (1994) and the posthumous Clandestine (2005).
An opium den was an establishment where opium was sold and smoked.
Opium Den may also refer to:
- Opium Den (band), a 90's gothic rock band from Boston
- Chinese Opium Den, an 1894 American silent film
Usage examples of "opium den".
Shortly after Fix left the opium den, two waiters had lifted the unconscious Passepartout, and had carried him to the bed reserved for the smokers.
Then we'll free those poor, wretched girls you've got trapped in your opium den.
Against which we have that, so far as he is likely to know, there has been no clew pointing to this opium den.
She had the surest information that of late he had, when the fit was on him, made use of an opium den in the farthest east of the City.
His peripheral vision brought him the movement of the struggle and he leapt into the opium den.
Preston had a buzz on, a paper-chemical buzz, exacerbated by heat and by the thin haze of smoke that lent these wooden-Indian catacombs some of the atmosphere of an opium den, though the smell was not as pleasant, and no bunks were provided for those who had toked the pipe and felt wasted, as he felt ever more wasted, step by step.
An opium den in the Capstan Flat, perhaps, or dancing girls in 'B' turret?